# Senior Performance Verification Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are now looking for a Senior Performance Verification Engineer!

As a member of our CPU Performance verification Team, you will be responsible for performance correlation, analysing workloads and benchmarks for performance bottlenecks, developing microbenchmarks and creating the necessary verification infrastructure for performance analysis. This position offers you the opportunity to have real impact in a dynamic technology-focused company impacting product lines ranging from consumer graphics to self-driving cars and the growing field of artificial intelligence.

**Responsibilities:**

- Technical leadership role to define/plan/implement/execute performance verification strategy of sophisticated CPU designs

- Ability to delve into lowest level details of CPU unit design specification, implementation and its performance impact

- Interactions with architect and design engineers to define detailed scope of micro architectural features

- Draft detailed performance test plans and define/Create scalable micros to validate features

- Analysis and correlation of CPU benchmarks/workloads

- Build infra/tooling needed for efficient performance correlation debug

- Ability to lead and provide detailed technical guidance to junior engineers

- Agility to work on multiple tasks/projects

**Requirements:**

- BS or MS in EE/ECE or equivalent experience. PhD is a plus

- 3+ years of experience in CPU performance modeling, performance correlation, performance analysis, or relevant experiences

- Strong understanding in CPU micro architecture and designs

- Experience with workload analysis and characterization

- Strong coding skills in scripting languages like Perl, Python, or C++

- Good communication skills and ability & desire to work as a team player are a must

**Ways to stand out from the crowd:**

- Experience leading performance validation of major blocks of CPU pipeline

- Background with ARM A64, X86 Architectures

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until May 8, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

## Skills

### Required
- CPU performance modeling
- performance correlation
- performance analysis
- CPU micro architecture
- workload analysis
- characterization
- Perl
- Python
- C++

### Nice to have
- ARM A64
- X86 Architectures

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